CHAPTER FOURTEEN

MOMMY WISHFUL THINKING

Piper walked to Paige's bedroom door and took a deep breath and knocked on the door. "I know you don't want to see me Paige. But I have to spend time with my son. So if you can let him know that his mommy would like him I will appreciate it." She waited for something to happen. Anything would just suit her. She just wanted her back. Wyatt didn't orb back into her arms the night before choosing in stead of sleeping in Paige's room. Piper had enough of being a reasonable person with her son's stubbornness. He still needed his mother for crying out loud, even if he is a magical baby. He still needed Piper to love and take care of him.

Orbs appeared behind Piper and Paige stood there with a annoyed look on her face as she saw her empty hands.

"Let me guess Wyatt has his own mind." Piper sighed at her sister. She breathed deeply. "I'll handle this." She turned back to the door and flicked her wrists at her sister's door and the lock sounded. "I don't want to scare my son away from me." She said not turning around to look at Paige. "I just used enough force to unlock your lock." She placed her hand on the knob and turned it and pushed the door open. "Hello my little one." She smiled gently at the sight of her fourteen month son sitting in the middle of Paige's bed.

Paige waited outside as she watched mother try to coach her son out of the room. Good luck. Wyatt has a mind of his own and he's pretty ticked off with you for your unfair treatment of me.

"Mommy misses you." Piper said softly sitting on the end of the bed close to her son but not touching him. "Mommy would love to spend time with you once more."

Wyatt frowned and shook his head. He was about to orb when he felt his mother's arms go around him quickly.

"Don't orb out on me Wyatt. Mommy doesn't like that." Piper said pulling her son closer to her and wrapped her arms firmly around her son's waist. She stood to her feet and walked from her sister's room. "The room is yours again, I'll try to talk Wyatt into shape changing you back, Paige."

Paige silently watched as her sister with her son in her arms walk away from her. She sighed deeply as she realized that the rift between them was as strong as before. She was about to follow Piper but than she frowned darkly as she remembered what her sisters did to her. They tried to run her life and she wasn't into having other people run her life. She walked back into her room and used her right paw and slammed the door behind her.

Piper winced at the sound of her sister's bedroom door slam shut. She sighed through her nose as she walked down the stairs with Wyatt. "Paige is still planning on leaving." She said walking into the living room where Leo, Phoebe and Chris were sitting. "I told her that I'll try to get Wyatt to shape change her back today. But in a way I don't want him."

"Don't voice it other wise Wyatt will never turn Paige back into herself." Phoebe said with a frown. "I don't want my baby sister to be a monkey for the rest of her life. I miss talking to Paige and just being around her. It's only been only a day and I just want Paige to be Paige once more."

"Paige is going to leave us, Phoebe, you will still miss having her around. She'll probably only come near us when we need the Power of Three. And than it will be very strain." Piper said putting Wyatt down in his playpen. "No orbing to Paige, Wyatt. Matter of fact no orbing at all."

Wyatt sat down and folded his arms across his chest and frowned up at his mother. He was going to obey only because Piper used the voice she used only before she lost her temper. His mother hadn't lost her temper with him yet, but he had seen her lose her temper with his father, aunts and of course the demons so he knew that she meant business. He didn't want to press her and force her to lose her temper with him quite yet. He was saving that for when he was older and he could use his voice right back at her. He quite frankly couldn't wait to test his mother's temper.

"You and Paige need to sit down and talk everything out." Leo said looking into both of Piper and Phoebe's eyes after Piper had sat down next to Phoebe on the couch. "You two need to be the ones to start the discussion. Paige won't be the one to come to you."

"What is it you know that you aren't telling us." Piper looked angrily up at her ex husband. "This isn't the time to keep anything back, Leo."

"I'm sorry but I gave Paige my word." Leo said.

"To hell with your word! Your word is mean less with me. You gave me your word that you and I would be together for good, that the Elders couldn't take you from me. But you turned your back on me and your son the moment you decided to become an Elder." Piper stormed standing to her feet quickly. "What has Paige told you, Leo!" She demanded. She fought against the hot tears that threatened to fall.

"I'm sorry." Leo said shaking his head. "Paige is the one who has to be the one to tell you. In her own time and in her own way."

"Paige will never open herself up to us, Leo, don't you get that." Piper softly said. "Paige doesn't trust in our love for her."

"That's not true." Chris blurted out. He quickly realized what he said and bowed his head. He just hoped no one would ask him what he meant. But no such luck.

"How do you know this Chris?" Piper's head swung around to stare at the white lighter from the future who had suddenly appeared in their lives.

"In the future Paige is ..." Chris began. He stopped himself from speaking any more. "Give her time." He finished.

"We are out of time." Piper said sitting down next to Phoebe once more.

"You are never out time." Chris said softly.

"Did you know Wyatt would shape change Paige into a chimpanzee?" Phoebe asked looking up at her second born nephew from the future.

Chris shook his head. "No. Around this time Paige had a mental break down and wrote about her break up in the Book of Shadows, but Wyatt hadn't shape changed her."

"What happened than?" Phoebe sighed.

"We left a picture of a chimpnzee on the cofee table." Leo said. "I was reading the newspaper and I left it open to the article about the chimpnzee." He sighed. "Wyatt figured out a way to keep Paige at the manor with him."

"I'm pretty sure he would have shape changed her back yesterday until Piper lost her temper." Chris said. "Sorry Piper." He held up his hands at the sight of his mother frowning darkly at him. "But it's the truth."

Piper sighed. "You are correct. This is all my fault."

"Only thing that is your fault is you losing your temper." Phoebe said placing her hand on her sister's shoulders. "You didn't ask Wyatt to shape change Paige."

"Wyatt is my son, I should have better control over him." Piper said with a frown and a shake to her head. "I should have never said that Paige was planning on leaving us with Wyatt in ear shot."

"You didn't know Wyatt would shape change Paige." Leo said. "No one knew."

"How did Paige get over her mental break down?" Phoebe asked looking over at Chris. "The truth."

"You don't want to know." Chris said. "I can't really tell you. Because if I told you and you fix it before it happens than Paige will forever be changed. I'm sorry but this break down that Paige is going through needs to happen for Paige's future self."

"That bad?" Leo softly asked.

"Yea that bad." Chris nodded his head. "I'm sorry but I have to go." With that he orbed out.

"All I can tell you is to be by Paige's side. Don't push her too much and always remind her that you love her and always will." Leo said backing away from the coffee table. "I'm sorry but I have leave." He orbed out himself.

"That's helpful." Piper sighed. "Of course we will always love Paige and always be by her side. Even through she doesn't want us to be."

Phoebe sighed as she leaned against Piper's shoulder. "I wish she she would trust us. I mean we are her sisters. Her blood." She frowned. "I can't believe Paigey is having a mental break down. I can't stand to have her in pain."

"She gets through it through. Chris said she get's through it." Piper said as her eyes closed. "But he doesn't say if we help her through it or if she leaves the manor during this time."

"CHRIS!" Phoebe shouted suddenly opening her eyes.

Chris orbed back in. "What do you need?" He asked with raised eye brows.

"Do we help Paige through this?" Phoebe asked.

"Yes." Chris said and than orbed out once more.

"There see." Phoebe said closing her eyes once more.

"But how?" Piper asked.

"We have to wait and see." Phoebe sighed opening her eyes. "Hopefully soon."

Wyatt let out a small cry to get the attention of his mother and his aunt. He didn't like what he was hearing. His Aunt Paige going through a mental break down. Not his beloved Aunt Paige. His mother and aunt had to get his aunt back to being healty and happy now. Like in yesterday.

Piper got to her feet and rushed over to her son. She bent down and picked her little boy up into her arms and began to rock side to side. "Everything is going to be all right Wyatt, Aunt Paige will be all right. She's not leaving. She'll be here with us for a good long while, mommy promises."

Wyatt just tucked his head even closer to his mother's heart as he listened to her speak in her soft tone. He knew that she believed what she was saying. He just prayed that she was right. But he had a feeling that things would be getting a lot worse before they got better.

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